by Juhi Singhal Karan
Five in Bloom is relaunching with five books that are coming out this spring! Continue reading
Tag Archives: Chekhov
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: A Burst of Sicilian Sun
by Sonya Chung
Lampedusa’s eventual success at portraying a layered, multi-caste society . . . is testament to the power of literature to shape the imaginative and emotional capacity of a devoted reader, no matter how sheltered his daily life.
Fugue States: Eugen Ruge’s In Times of Fading Light
by Jill Kronstadt
The trajectory of the fictional Umnitzers closely mirrors Ruge’s own family history, and Ruge freely admits that he waited to publish the book until he was 57, after all the characters’ real-life counterparts had died. Continue reading
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